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Date: Wed May 10 15:39:46 2006
From: ltr at isc.upenn.edu (David Taylor)
Subject: MS06-019 - How long before this develops
	into a self propagating email worm

One of the things that makes this a bit more dangerous is that the patch
causes problems so people are more reluctant to install the patch until they
see what problems others are having.  This could be interesting.


On 5/10/06 6:26 AM, "schanulleke.29172787@...glines.com"
<schanulleke.29172787@...glines.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have read the Microsoft advisory and the alarm bells started to
> whistle ;)
> 
> As fas a I can read this open the door to fully self propagating
> email worms with whatever payload you desire.
> 
> Yet, sans.org, symantec and
> us-cert.gov still have their threat levels on 1.
> 
> What am I missing, surely
> this superseeds the IE7 0-day action (sorry couldn't resist).
> 
> Schanulleke
> 
> 
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